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Anyway, the post that revived this thread is based on these personal options: The rule was made by someone authorized to make rules, but I disagree with it, so (1) I will endeavor to get it changed; or (2) It doesn't apply to me. Civil disobedience is a fine social tool, but requires...

Oh, heck. When the number of deaths were several dozen but expanding rapidly, I posted on Facebook that, at that exponential rate, we could see 30,000 deaths. One of my MAGA friends called me a fearmonger. I predicted at the time that they'd go from (1) people won't die to (2) the deaths...

Personally, I don't see any scientific basis for penalty strokes on O.B., so won't be complying at my next tournament.

Defying rules is not the same as opposing rules.

I'm a little amused that someone would dredge up a 4-year-old thread just to retort to a quote, and then miss the point of that quote (which was about breaking rules, not the rules themselves).

It's the gators you don't see, that you have to worry about.

We've been at Stoney Hill 20 years and never seen a venomous snake. Not saying that they're not here, but we have king snakes, and king snakes eat venomous snakes. At Earlewood, in downtown Columbia, on the other hand, I've seen a lot of copperheads, and once stepped next to one (juicing my...

Our northern water snakes, plus a few other water snake species, are almost always the source of people claiming to have seen a copperhead or cottonmouth on our course.

Without knowing the exact case, an intermittent stream should probably be casual, just for consistency. A little odd to be OB this week, IB next week. Or....if it has a defined creek bed, and it's worth the effort, the creek bed can be flagged (or otherwise marked) to make it consistently OB...

I think it comes back to the "wisely or foolishly" part of designating OB. Our course has a road with virtually no traffic, so could be played from with no problem. On 8 holes, the road and beyond is OB, for strategic reasons. On another 3, it's not OB, because there would be no strategic...

I know what it's supposed to be. Therein lies the problem. When we have tournaments, I give written rules to the players. I hope I've written them correctly. On most holes, the creek is OB. On a few holes, the creek and beyond is OB. But if on those holes, on the tournament sheet, I only...

You're correct. It's not automatically OB, by rule. I was talking about common OB, and water is almost always designated as OB by the designer/TD. So, if I'm traveling to a course and don't have anything official, I'd assume it's OB. In a tournament, refer to the rules given by the TD...

We have a hilltop tee with a 60' elevation drop, and I'm not sure the formula works at extremes. We also have a net-level hole -- 700' long, uphill, then downhill. Not sure the elevation gains & losses zero each other out. But I think it's a good rule-of-thumb, and I'm not asking about...

That probably falls in the category of "Whether wise or foolish..." TDs may get overzealous and use poorly-designed OB. Tournament players can grumble, but casual players need not comply.

I view it as 4 sets of rules: event rules, course rules, common rules, casual rules. Event rules are set by the TD. Whether wise or foolish, they're the rules. Course rules would be what's on the signs, permanently marked, or otherwise established. Common rules are the ones you expect --...

Has anyone ever tested the elevation/distance ratio? It seems a reasonable ballpark figure, and it couldn't be tested precisely, but has anyone compared their level-ground throws with some elevation throws with the same discs, and measured the differences?

My footnote is that in 2011, at their last convention here, I had no idea what they were. I had lived in the city for their previous appearances, and apparently they're not much of a city thing (either they don't appear in great numbers, or they're drowned out by the sirens). Living in the...

In South Carolina we only have the 13s, and due to earlier seasons they've come and gone. I'll say that the novelty wore off in about a week, after which the noise and dead bugs were just a nuisance. (I swore I'd record it, and blast the sound at high volumes into the ground in about 6 years...

The PDGA tried that, years ago. Or a user-managed version of it. It had an incredibly long checklist list of criteria for users to complete, assigned a points value to each, and gave a course a rating. If you looked at it, you would at least have information on every feature of a course...

We have a private course, and when we evaluate scores, we look first at MPO, and then MA1 (because it's really a blue-level course, better geared to Advanced players than pros). But other divisions also play those holes and tees, too. The problem, of course, is that even in MPO & MA1, there...